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birth charts with Zeus in GeminiYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Zeus in Gemini. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. ![]() ![]()
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Biography of Annie S. D. Maunder (excerpt)
Annie Scott Dill Maunder (née Russell) FRAS (14 April 1868 – 15 September 1947) was an Irish-British astronomer, who recorded the first evidence of the movement of sunspot emergence from the poles toward the equator over the sun's 11-year cycle.She was one of the leading astronomers of her time, but because of her gender, her contribution was often underplayed at the time.
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Biography of Daniel Oehlert (excerpt)
Daniel Victor Œhlert, also known as Oehlert (born November 1, 1849, in Laval and died September 17, 1920, in the same city) was a French scientist. His roles as a librarian and later as a curator of the archaeology and natural history museums of Laval allowed him to devote himself to paleontology and geology.
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Biography of Willem Elsschot (excerpt)
Willem Elsschot, born Alfons-Jozef de Ridder, was born in Antwerp on May 7, 1882, and died on May 31, 1960.A Belgian writer and poet who wrote in Dutch, he produced only 750 pages of prose, yet remains highly influential. Born into a baker's family, he left school early and held various jobs in Antwerp, Brussels, Paris, and Rotterdam. ![]()
Biography of Lucina Hagman (excerpt)
Lucina Hagman (5 June 1853, Kälviä – 6 September 1946) was an early Finnish feminist and among the first female MPs in the world due to the 1907 Finnish parliamentary election. Life and career Hagman was the daughter of police master Nils Johan Erik Hagman and Margareta Sofia Nordman, a police chief in rural Kälviä.
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Biography of John Scott Haldane (excerpt)
John Scott Haldane CH FRS (2 May 1860 – 14/15 March 1936) was a British physician physiologist and philosopher famous for intrepid self-experimentation which led to many important discoveries about the human body and the nature of gases.He also experimented on his son, the celebrated and polymathic biologist J.
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Biography of Gabriel Nigond (excerpt)
Gabriel Nigond, born on February 24, 1877, in Châteauroux and died on January 4, 1937, was a French writer, poet, and playwright. Son of an engineer, he published his first poetry collection at 17.He frequented literary circles in Paris and developed a strong friendship with Marcel Schwob.
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Biography of Eduard Kaufmann (excerpt)
Eduard Kaufmann (24 March 1860, Bonn – 15 December 1931, Göttingen) was a German physician. The disease Abderhalden–Kaufmann–Lignac syndrome is named for him. Career Kaufmann studied in Bonn and Berlin, and earned his doctorate from the University of Bonn in 1884. He was appointed Privatdozent for anatomical pathology in Breslau three years later, and assisted at Emil Ponfick’s institute.
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Biography of Enrique de Aguilera y Gamboa (excerpt)
Enrique de Aguilera y Gamboa, Marquis of Cerralbo (Madrid, June 8, 1845 – Madrid, August 27, 1922) was a Spanish archaeologist, collector, and politician. A Grandee of Spain, he was the chief delegate of the Traditionalist Communion (the official political party of Carlism) from 1890 to 1898 and from 1913 to 1919.
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Biography of Marie of Saint Just (excerpt)
Anne-Françoise Moreau, known in religion as Sister Marie of Saint-Just, born on April 9, 1866, in Rouans (Loire-Inférieure), died on July 9, 1900, in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, China, was a nun of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary, martyr, and saint. She was beheaded during the Boxer Rebellion.
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Biography of J.-H. Rosny jeune (excerpt)
J.-H. Rosny jeune was the pseudonym of Séraphin Justin François Boex (July 21, 1859 – July 21, 1948), a French author of Belgian origin who, along with his better known older brother J.-H. Rosny aîné, is considered one of the founding figures of modern science fiction.
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Biography of Richard Lyon-Dalberg-Acton (excerpt)
Richard Maximilian Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 2nd Baron Acton, KCVO, JP, DL (7 August 1870 – 16 June 1924) was a British peer and diplomat, ultimately Britain's first Ambassador to Finland in 1919–20. Honours Acton was appointed to the Royal Victorian Order as a Member (fourth class) in 1901.
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Biography of Jean Périer (excerpt)
Jean Périer was a French actor and singer born on February 2, 1869, in Paris and passed away on November 1, 1954, in Neuilly-sur-Seine. He was the first performer of the role of Pelléas in Pelléas et Mélisande by Claude Debussy in 1902.
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Biography of Mathilda of Austria (excerpt)
Archduchess Mathilde Marie Adelgunde Alexandra of Austria (25 January 1849 – 6 June 1867) was a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine as the daughter of Archduke Albert, Duke of Teschen. She was intended to become the Queen of Italy as the wife of King Umberto I, but her early death prevented the marriage.
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Biography of Richard Haldane (excerpt)
Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, KT, OM, PC, FRS, FSA, FBA (30 July 1856 – 19 August 1928) was a British lawyer and philosopher and an influential Liberal and later Labour politician.He was Secretary of State for War between 1905 and 1912 during which time the "Haldane Reforms" of the British Army were implemented.
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Biography of Arthur Nussbaum (excerpt)
Arthur Nussbaum (January 31, 1877 – November 22, 1964) was a German-born American jurist. He studied legal science in Berlin from 1894 till 1897. He taught at the University of Berlin (1918–1933). In 1934, he moved to the United States, and in 1940, he became a US citizen.
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Biography of Ludwig Merzbacher (excerpt)
Ludwig Merzbacher (9 February 1875 – 30 October 1942) was a German neuropathologist and psychiatrist born in Florence, Italy. He earned his medical doctorate from the University of Strassburg in 1900 and later worked at psychiatric clinics in Freiburg, Heidelberg, and Tübingen.
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Biography of Karl Theodor Fahr (excerpt)
Karl Theodor Fahr (3 October 1877 – 29 October 1945) was a German pathologist born in Pirmasens of the Rhineland-Palatinate. In 1903 he earned his medical doctorate from the University of Giessen, afterwards continuing his studies with Eugen Bostroem (1850-1926) in Giessen, under Morris Simmonds (1855-1925) in Hamburg and with Ilya Ilyich Metchnikoff (1845-1916) in Paris.
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Biography of Jan Van Beers (artist) (excerpt)
Jean Marie Constantin Joseph "Jan" Van Beers (27 March 1852 – 17 November 1927) was a Belgian painter and illustrator, the son of the poet Jan van Beers.They are sometimes referred to as Jan van Beers the elder and Jan van Beers the younger.
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Biography of John Maclean (Scottish socialist) (excerpt)
John Maclean (24 August 1879 - 30 November 1923) was a Scottish schoolteacher and revolutionary socialist of the Red Clydeside era.He was notable for his outspoken opposition to World War I, which caused his arrest under the Defence of the Realm Act and loss of his teaching post, after which he became a full-time Marxist lecturer and organiser.
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Biography of Bonar Law (excerpt)
Andrew Bonar Law (16 September 1858 – 30 October 1923) was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister from October 1922 to May 1923. Born in New Brunswick, he moved to Scotland in 1870 and became wealthy in the iron industry. Elected to the House of Commons in 1900, he served in various roles including Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade and Secretary of State for the Colonies.
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Biography of Edmond Loutil (excerpt)
Eugène Edmond Loutil, known as Pierre the Hermit, born November 17, 1863 in Mohon (Ardennes) and died April 16, 1959 in Paris, is a parish priest who became honorary canon of the Paris chapter and apostolic protonotary. He was also a journalist, editor at La Croix from 1891 and a writer under the pseudonym Pierre L'Ermite.
Biography of Henri Michel (politician, born 1857) (excerpt)
Henri Michel, a French politician, was born on January 27, 1857, in Lambesc and died on June 19, 1930, in Charenton-le-Pont. Initially a high school teacher in Avignon and later a journalist and lawyer in Paris, Michel entered politics as a deputy for Bouches-du-Rhône in 1898, aligning with the radical-socialist group.
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Biography of Neil Munro (writer) (excerpt)
Neil Munro (April 2, 1864 (Wikipedia has a mistake) – December 22, 1930) was a Scottish journalist, editor, author, and critic. Initially recognized for serious literature, Munro is best known today for humorous stories about characters like Captain Para Handy of the Vital Spark.
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Biography of Johan d'Aulnis de Bourouill (excerpt)
Johan Baron d'Aulnis de Bourouill (1850-1930), a Dutch jurist and professor of economics at the University of Utrecht, began his career in academia after practicing law in Amsterdam. His scholarly work included a dissertation on societal income and he served as a professor from 1878 until his retirement in 1917.
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Biography of Charlotte Lysès (excerpt)
Charlotte Augustine Hortense Lejeune, known as Charlotte Lysès, was born on May 17, 1877, in Paris's 8th arrondissement and died on April 6, 1956, in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, Alpes-Maritimes. She was a French theater and film actress. She was the first wife of Sacha Guitry from 1907 to 1918.
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Biography of Henk Bremmer (excerpt)
Hendricus Peter (Henk) Bremmer (17 May 1871, Leiden – 10 January 1956, The Hague) was a Dutch painter, art critic, art teacher, collector and art dealer.He was the father of the painter Rudolph Bremmer (1900–1993). Bremmer trained as a painter and artist, working in journalism from 1893–1895 and began teaching art in 1896.
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Biography of Maurice Letulle (excerpt)
Maurice Éléonor Joseph Lucien Letulle, born in Mortagne-au-Perche in the Orne on March 19, 1853, and died in Paris on January 1, 1929, was a physician specializing in pathological anatomy and an associate professor at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris.
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Biography of Margherita Sarfatti (excerpt)
Margherita Sarfatti (née Grassini; April 8, 1880 – October 30, 1961) was an Italian journalist, art critic, patron, and propaganda advisor, associated with the Fascist Party and a mistress of Benito Mussolini. Born into a Jewish family in Venice, she developed socialist leanings early and left home at 18 to marry Cesare Sarfatti, a lawyer.
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Biography of Marius Chapuis (excerpt)
Marius Chapuis, a French cinema operator, was born on May 30, 1878, in Lyon and died on November 16, 1961, in Champfromier, Ain. He was one of the early promoters of the Lumière cinematograph abroad, alongside Alexandre Promio, Félix Mesguich, and Francis Doublier.
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Biography of Hélène Picard (excerpt)
Hélène Picard, born Hélène Dumarc on October 1, 1873, in Toulouse, France, initially gained recognition in her native region. She received two successive awards from the Academy of Floral Games in Toulouse. In 1903, while living in Privas, Ardèche, she published her first book, "La Feuille morte," a lyrical drama that went unnoticed nationally.
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Biography of Francesco Saverio Nitti (excerpt)
Francesco Saverio Vincenzo de Paola Nitti (19 July 1868 – 20 February 1953) was an Italian economist and political figure, serving as Prime Minister of Italy from 1919 to 1920. A member of the Italian Radical Party, he opposed fascism and dictatorship throughout his career.
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Biography of Gaston Cros (excerpt)
Gaston Cros, born on October 6, 1861, in Saverne, died on May 11, 1915, in the Berthonval woods (Mont-Saint-Éloi), was a French colonel who served during World War I. He was the son of Hippolyte Cros and Marie Pétronille Reine Schnerb. He entered the Saint-Cyr Special Military School in 1881, as part of the Egypt promotion, and graduated in 1883.
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Biography of August Gaul (excerpt)
August Gaul, born on October 22, 1869, in Hanau, Hesse, and died on October 18, 1921, in Berlin, was a German animal sculptor. He was part of the modern trend of the Berlin School of Sculpture.At 13, he attended the Royal Drawing Academy in Hanau and later worked in a silverware factory.
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Biography of Marcus Samuel (excerpt)
Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted, JP (5 November 1853 – 17 January 1927), known as Sir Marcus Samuel between 1898 and 1921 and subsequently as The Lord Bearsted until 1925, was a Lord Mayor of London and the founder of the Shell Transport and Trading Company, which was later restructured including a Netherlands-based company commonly referred to as Royal Dutch Shell.
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Biography of Peter Mackie (excerpt)
Sir Peter Jeffrey Mackie, 1st Baronet, JP (26 November 1855 – 22 September 1924) was a Scottish whisky distiller and writer. Mackie was born at St Ninians, Stirling. His father, Alexander Mackie (died 1884), was a distiller. His mother was Jane Simpson Brown (died 1886).
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Biography of José Sánchez Marco (excerpt)
José Sánchez Marco (Tudela, February 13, 1865 – Pamplona, 1949) was a Spanish politician, initially integrist and later carlist. In 1905, he was elected deputy to the Cortes for the Liga Foral of Azpeitia, later serving for Pamplona from 1907 to 1914, and became senator for Navarre in 1914.
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Biography of Claude Fournier (soldier) (excerpt)
Claude Fournier, born on November 27, 1880, in Colombier-en-Brionnais, Saône-et-Loire, and killed in action on August 4, 1916, at Verdun, in what is now the department of Meuse, was a sergeant and soldier in the French Army during World War I.
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Biography of Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick (excerpt)
Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Greville, Countess of Warwick (née Maynard; 10 December 1861 – 26 July 1938) was a British socialite and philanthropist. Although embedded in late-Victorian British high society, she was also a campaigning socialist, supporting many schemes to aid the less well-off in education, housing, employment, and pay, and was often known as the "Red Countess".
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Biography of John Erskine (educator) (excerpt)
John Erskine (October 5, 1879 – June 2, 1951) was an American educator, author, pianist, and composer.His time of birth comes from his autobiography (via Lescaut). A professor of English at Amherst College and later Columbia University, he was instrumental in the General Honors Course and influenced the Great Books movement.
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Biography of Hein Boeken (excerpt)
Hein Boeken, born on December 2, 1861, in Amsterdam, where he also died on October 19, 1933, was a Dutch writer and poet associated with the Tachtigers, a prominent literary movement. A close friend of Willem Kloos, he studied classics and earned his doctorate in 1899 with a thesis on Apuleius' Metamorphoses.
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Biography of George Hendrik Breitner (excerpt)
George Hendrik Breitner (12 September 1857 – 5 June 1923) was a Dutch painter and photographer. An important figure in Amsterdam Impressionism, he is noted especially for his paintings of street scenes and harbours in a realistic style. He painted en plein air, and became interested in photography as a means of documenting street life and atmospheric effects – rainy weather in particular – as reference materials for his paintings.
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Biography of Cornelis Andries Backer (excerpt)
Cornelis Andries Backer (18 September 1874 – 22 February 1963) was a Dutch botanist and pteridologist. He was born in Oudenbosch and died on 22 February 1963 at Heemstede, The Netherlands. He stayed thirty years in the Dutch East Indies and did research on plant taxonomy on the islands of Java and Madura.
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Biography of Victor Delbos (excerpt)
Étienne Marie Justin Victor Delbos (26 September 1862, Figeac – 16 June 1916, Paris) was a Catholic philosopher and historian of philosophy. Delbos was appointed a lecturer at the Sorbonne in 1902.In 1911 he became a member of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques.
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Biography of Émile Dehelly (excerpt)
Émile Léon Auguste Dehelly, born on August 7, 1871, in Fresnoy-le-Grand (Aisne) and died on September 4, 1969, in Paris (5th arrondissement), was a French actor and a member of the Comédie-Française. Coming to Épernon (Eure-et-Loir) with his father when he was young, he was drafted with the number 104 during his military conscription in 1893 in Maintenon.
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Biography of Joaquín Torres García (excerpt)
Joaquín Torres García, born on July 29, 1874, in Montevideo (Uruguay), where he died on August 8, 1949, was a Spanish-Uruguayan muralist painter, sculptor, writer, teacher, and theorist. His time of birth ceoms from him in his autobiography. "Torres-García is one of the great figures of art in this century." His influence spans European, American, and South American modern art, and he is considered the father of universal constructivism.
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Biography of Elisabeth Marie of Bavaria (excerpt)
Princess Elisabeth Marie of Bavaria (January 8, 1874 - March 4, 1957) was a member of the Bavarian Royal House of Wittelsbach. Born in Munich, she was the eldest child of Prince Leopold of Bavaria and Archduchess Gisela of Austria, daughter of Emperor Franz Joseph I.
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Biography of Henri Martin (painter) (excerpt)
Henri Martin, born on August 5, 1860, in Toulouse, was a post-impressionist painter known for his divisionist style featuring short, parallel strokes, exploring symbolist themes and poetic landscapes. Educated at the Fine Arts School of Toulouse and then in Paris, he traveled to Italy where he was inspired by the primitives, evolving towards a style influenced by the neo-impressionists.
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Biography of Salvatore Farina (excerpt)
Salvatore Farina (10 January 1846 – 15 December 1918) was an Italian novelist whose style of sentimental humor has been compared to that of Charles Dickens.He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times. Life Born in the Sardinian town of Sorso, he studied law at Turin and Pavia before moving to Milan and taking up literature, remaining there for the rest of his life.
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Biography of Paul Albert (cyclist) (excerpt)
Paul Albert, born on February 16, 1876, in Biebrich, was a German cyclist from a prestigious industrial family. With an engineering degree, he excelled in amateur cycling, winning notable titles such as the "Großen Preis von Deutschland" and the amateur sprint world championship in 1898.
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Biography of Max Halbe (excerpt)
Max Halbe (October 4, 1865 – November 30, 1944) was a German dramatist and a prominent exponent of Naturalism.Born in Danzig (Gdańsk), he studied law, history, and Germanic philology, earning his doctorate at the University of Munich in 1888. Influenced by the naturalist movement, he became a key figure in the Freie Bühne. |
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